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Book Review: Polar Quest – Tom Grace

Part of the Nolan Kilkenny series I welcomed the action and adventure I knew would be contained within. What strikes me about Tom Grace’s character other than ability is the humility, which coupled with his stories, has brought me back to read another adventure. There is a certain Dan Brown feel to the stories, issues [...]

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Book Review: The Long Walk – Slavomir Rawicz

Blimey! Without doubt this is the best book I’ve read this year so far. It is an epic book covering the (probably fictional) struggle of a group of prisoners who escape from a Siberian prison camp, and set out to walk thousands of miles in search of their freedom. The story is both heart breaking [...]

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Book Review: Time Riders ‘The Doomsday Code’ – Alex Scarrow

Book three of the Time Riders series and it did not disappoint. Sitting here writing this review I can easily imagine this series being televised, a radio show or a graphic novel edition. I guess in part due to the books smoothly flowing into each other and the characters not just ‘correcting’ the time stream, [...]

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Book Review: Time Riders – Alex Scarrow

Brilliant! This is a well written time travel book and a must read for any time travel fan. Okay it is aimed at the younger reader, but don’t be fooled, it should also be read by any adult interested in the topic. This is the first book of a series and me being me I [...]

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Book Review: Men At Arms – Sir Terry Pratchett

Not surprisingly this is a book from the Discworld series, a superb collection of books written by Sir Terry Pratchett. Men At Arms was first published in 1993 and this is at least my second time reading this book. As I’ve mentioned before on this blog I’m generally not a fantasy fan and Sir Terry [...]